Nov. 5: Asheron's Call 2 Site - Program Manager's Letter Et Al

Microsoft's Ken Karl offers a glimpse at what lies ahead in Turbine's first couple of monthly updates.

By IGN Staff

On the site for Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings, a letter to players from Microsoft Program Manager Ken Karl looks forward to what's coming up in December and January. He starts off as folloes:

One of the biggest differences between managing production of Asheron's Call versus Asheron's Call 2 is that we have to finish our AC2 monthly episodes three to four weeks before the episode goes live, as opposed to the one week differential we enjoyed (although there are a few other words I could use there) with AC1. There are a number of different reasons why, but a big advantage to those extra few weeks of lead time is that we can get a much firmer sense of what's going into our monthly episodes well before that episode goes live.

In this Letter, I'll talk about what we're relatively sure is going into our first monthly episode scheduled for early December. I'll then talk about other things that the team is focusing on for January and beyond. This list should not be taken as the definitive list of improvements and changes for December, but rather as an educated guess, given where we're at in production right now. Also keep in mind that this list does not focus on the numerous miscellaneous bug fixes that we're working on, nor the specific details of the new quests for December.

In addition, the site points out this message on the game's boards. Also dated yesterday, it's a letter to the beta participants from Lead Program Manager Matthew Ford with his thoughts on both the beta and the future. - Jonric